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- Recent studies show that fruits and vegetables are key sources of bioactive compounds, with food processing waste often containing equal or higher antioxidant levels.
- Environmental concerns about increasing agricultural and food waste have led to a push for sustainable methods to transform this waste into valuable products.
- Tomato byproducts are highlighted as a promising, low-cost source of antioxidants, and the text reviews methods for extracting carotenoids and their potential industrial uses.
Article Abstract
Fast-accumulating scientific evidence from many studies has revealed that fruits and vegetables are the main source of bioactive compounds; in most cases, wastes and byproducts generated by the food processing industry present similar or a higher content of antioxidant compounds. In recent years, the ever-growing amount of agricultural and food wastes has raised serious concerns from an environmental point of view. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in finding new ways for their processing toward safely upgrading these wastes for recovering high-value-added products with a sustainable approach. Among food waste, the abundance of bioactive compounds in byproducts derived from tomato suggests possibility of utilizing them as a low-cost source of antioxidants as functional ingredients. This contribution gives an overview of latest studies on the extraction methods of carotenoids from tomato waste, along with an evaluation of their antioxidant activity, as well as their industrial applications.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8398759 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules26165062 | DOI Listing |
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